[CQ-Contest] Re: ANOTHER CAUSE OF UNINTENDED DUPES

[otterstad@inet.uni2.dk (Ragnar Otterstad)]

The problem occurs only if the DX station is not responding with the other
stations callsign
properly and acknowledge the qso   ( IMHO )

73  Rag  oz8ro

> 
> DUPES as a result of OFF  FREQUENCY  CALLING  -  de  N4KG
> 
> One contributing factor to dupes that I have not seen addressed
> is  OFF   FREQUENCY   CALLING.  This is not as big a problem
> as it was 10 years ago, but it still happens.  If the caller is a little
> high in frequency and there is another station calling CQ above
> the desired target station, the higher station may log the caller,
> UNKNOWN to the caller.  When he later comes across the 
> unintended station, he is told he is a DUPE, but the new target
> station  does not  appear in the caller's log.
> 
>


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